The New Year has already begun. Today, after a lazy start, I
went out into the nature park 'de
Luysen' to enjoy the wonderful nature and peace and
quiet. The nature park is a very swampy area filled with
wonderful flora and fauna about 4km from my home. The paths
are indicated, and usually I try to walk between 7 and 10 km.
The park is home to a lot of waterbirds, but also birds of
prey, beavers, deers and lots of other animals can be seen
there.

I like the park, and I decided two years ago to support the
organization that maintains it by becoming a paying member.

The thoughts while walking this morning were many, but one
I'ld like to record here. The thought was that mankind is part
of nature, and yes, like all life on earth - we effect the
climate for sure. Admittedly more than any other species on
earth, but for sure we are not the only ones.

Also the word 'green communism' came into my mind. The people
that 'predict' climate change and want to force other people
in behaving differently. Behaving differently is one, but
letting them pay for what they think and determine is
'polluting' and effecting the climate.

How on earth can anyone think he can predict the climate, if
we cannot even reliably predict tomorrow's weather? Or is it
me just being naive? To go with George Carlin - earth is a
stable system, and we don't have to be afraid it will die.
All's that will die are the humans living on it. Till then, we
better enjoy what we have, be it polluting or not.

Not a moment goes by that we in the West hear about the Muslim terrorists
that want to destroy our society. I guess the same holds
true for my fellow World neighbors in the Muslim
countries. They probably get bombarded (think about the
real bombs as well please!!) with the Western terror that
wants, no heck, is destroying their society.

What the hell is all of this serving? I
don't mind whether you are Muslim, Christian or Jew or
whether you are, whatever you want to be. As long as I
don't get bothered with whatever you want to be and do -
be my guest.

Then why is my elected government trying to make me
believe what they do is not terror, but is for the good of
my own sake? Bombarding people in remote locations is one,
stealing my privacy is another. Why? Why are the
psychopaths that rule our countries doing this?

For me the root cause lies in one direction: $$$$$$ and
that is what's destroying our happiness and health on this
planet. Their basic desires are out of control, and all
they want is more $$$$$$ so they can hobby
around and divide and conquer and kill. Kill as if
they were the Lord almighty in Person. If there is
such a thing as Lord almighty, call him God, Allah or
whatever, he'll be crying. Crying loud and hard, God
as much as Allah, as all crime is done in their name.

With that in mind, I see the Christian psychopaths
step on the bible with dirty shoes, and I see Muslim
psychopaths step on the Koran with identical dirty
shoes. It seems to me that we, yes all of us with less
dirt on our shoes get them off the holy Books and make
them understand that this is not what we are looking
for. Whether your name is Bill, Mohamed or Charlie -
don't walk with the psychopaths please....

We in the West are always so proud of our freedoms, and most
of all the freedom or our press. Seeing what's going on in the
Ukraine, I personally get the opinion that the press - whom I
would expect to be a guardian of our democracy and liberty -
is miserably failing.
Our free press is as much biased and filled with our leaders'
propoganda as the press of rogue states is. All one has to do
is step outside the absolute news, and look at the patterns
since 9/11. I cannot say whether before an identical pattern
can be found, as I have not looked into it, but since that
date it is quite obvious.

The pattern comes from reading alternative press, talking to
people and also reading blogs from local people whom express
their opinion on the internet. I've been thinking about what
is linking all of this into being independent, and after
asking 5x why I come to the conclusion that it all caught by
our system of money. The connecting flow are the $$$$$. This
really causes that our freedom is limited, our freedom of
choice, our freedom to democratically elect our government and
our freedom of live. Most of our choices are driven by the
$$$$$. This is also the case for our media, they follow the
path to maximize $$$$$. How about the communities that rise
all over the internet? I think they have a disconnect from
these $$$$$, or at least, I hope so.

I was wondering about frequencies and time constants. When
deciding on what to prioritize, modern business has become
used (forced by stock markets?) to only look a quarter ahead
in time. Real long term thinking and strategizing, securing a
company's future has become a secondary issue. Myself I try to
live and enjoy by the day, as every day might be the last one,
but the existentialism in every human being intuitively takes
care of the longer term future. Or at least, I always thought
it worked that way.

Now looking at the world around me, I see so many armed
conflicts going on, that it becomes very difficult to ignore
the Doom's Day scenario. Remaining positive however, I think
there is a solution. The only way out I see is to amputate the
tools of power from our society. And, to speak with Russel
Brand, it will take a revolution to get that done. The settled
powers will not allow for this voluntarily.

Let's start by no longer using the global currencies that have
been captured by the big banks. We, the people, in the end
decide whether we trust the (fiat) currency or not. Given that
as a fact, why don't we all switch to 'crypto currencies'. One
can use the internationally available ones, or easily create
local ones.

If we all, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians and Atheists all
together would start decoupling here, the power that governs
the world now would start diminishing. I don't know whether it
would help eventually to bring peace and love rather than war
and hate, but given that the current situation is progressing
to a not so attractive extreme I think we should at least give
it a try. Back to basics, take power into our own hands, and
create local meritocracies, where everyone excels in that what
is already their strong point anyway. And on our way there,
let's not forget to bring trust back into our societies.

That is the only way to stop the global heating going on as I
see it growing across the world like a cancer today. Click on
the
map to the left to enlarge and understand it.

I was thinking today about how I see the inequality grow,
it grows further year by year and I don't think it is a
good trend. Inequality will lead to dissatisfaction
amongst the people, which can only lead to more fear and
suffering.

Looking around some sites, I came across the graph to the
right, and was amazed by how good the GDP indicator
correlates to the measurement for inequality. This should
make you think a bit about what's going on.

An interesting site by the way to read a bit further
what's missing when GDP is measured and being confused as
a metric for

Conclusion

Over-reliance on GDP distorts decision-making affecting our
economy and society. Other metrics such as the Genuine
Progress Indicator are beginning to provide a more
comprehensive view of economic and social progress to use
when setting national priorities. As Joseph Stiglitz stated
upon release of the report of the Commission on the
measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress:
“What you measure affects what you do,” and if “you don’t
measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.”http://www.demos.org/publication/whats-missing-gdp

"Peace missions" in the Middle East have helped making
eveyone's life better over there. As stated by George
Bush, the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan have been
liberated...
Literally he stated: "Iraq is free, and today we are
joined by representatives of a liberated country."
George W. Bush, Sept. 23, 2003.
His fellow Hawk, Cheney said: "Just in this
administration, we've liberated 50 million people from the
Taliban in Afghanistan and from Saddam Hussein in Iraq --
two terribly oppressive regimes that slaughtered hundreds
of thousands of their own people."
Dick Cheney, May 31, 2005.
Well, look at the graph to the right, and just see how
many Iraqi civilians have been "liberated". When is all of
this going to stop, our psychopath leaders keep lying, as
they have always done, and we follow in obedience.
Currently Europe is flooded by people fleeing wars in
their own countries, and for Syria the best solution that
comes to our politicians' minds is - more bombs, shut the
borders, send them back. Great, all of this has been done
before and has proven not to help a bit. By now, I see
them only as an incompetent bunch of sick and helpless
psychopathic liars, who have nothing else in mind than
their own good and future. No vision, no leadership, just
incompetence....

Worse even, some think it was all worth it...During his
presidency, Bill Clinton presided over the most
devastating regime of economic sanctions in history that
the UN estimated took the lives of as many as a million
Iraqis, the vast majority of them children. In May of
1996, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Madeline
Albright, who at the time was Clinton"s UN Ambassador.
Correspondent Leslie Stahl said to Albright, "We have
heard that a half million children have died. I mean,
that"s more children than died in Hiroshima. And — and you
know, is the price worth it?"

Madeline Albright replied "I think this is a very hard
choice, but the price — we think the price is worth
it."

Last Friday I took the day off and it was time to get rid of
some lengthy hair again. The barber I went to comes from
Izmir, Turkey and he happens to be Muslim. The previous times
we talked a lot about his origins in Turkey and how wonderful
a city Izmir is. We shared all kinds of cultural and political
thoughts. You know, you can sit the 20 minutes in silence, it
is just much better to chat and learn, probably we both feel
that way.

Of course this time, we came to the Paris massacre and
discussed how fear
and insanity go hand in hand. He being a Muslim, me
being a Christian Atheist we felt exactly the same about what
had happened in Paris. Also the other muslims I am in regular
contact with (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Eritrea) feel and
express the same way. I am so weird, naive or blind that I
cannot see the violence that everybody claims their religion
should bring into them?

Well to be honest, when he handles the big barber knife and
moves it around in my neck, I do get the chills, but I've had
that since I was a kid going to any hairdresser in the world,
be it Christian, Jewish or Muslim....

Au contraire, what really scares me are all of the measures
taken by our lovely politicians to protect me. More and more
freedoms are stolen from us. More and more I see them behave
as incompetent managers. The more I think of it, read about
it, the more scary this pattern gets. Part of freedom is that
I live my life in a way that I think should, no need for
someone else to tell me how to live it...

I hope more people think like my barber and I, towards the end
of our discussion we completely agreed that people need to
treat each other with respect, whatever the other looks like,
thinks like, acts like. I just hope and wish more people like
he and I keep chatting about all of this.

Life is good!

Afterthought;
Listening to a youtube film of molyneux he showed an overview
of arms exporting countries. Click the link below, and see how
the graph evolves after 9/11 (2001). Wondering why 3 towers
had to fall vertically...... ;)